From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #308 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, 15 December 1995 Volume 02 : Number 308 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kerry White Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 20:35:54 -0600 (CST) Subject: 4 day retreat Hello, I work at a PBS tv station, just finished the beg-a-thon and am taking a 4 day weekend. If anyone I started anything w/ wonders why I'm not around, then they didn't read this! Just got a postcard advert w/ Keep and AG Vols 1+2 on it, thanks KB and Co! KrW Commit senseless acts of kindness, and random acts of beauty! ps: in reality I'm taking the time to *stalk* Murphy. A metaphysical Phenomenological jaunt to the archetypes and back, w/ his scalp! I may need to find Mahasamatman, known as Sam to his friends, as a good Binder of Demons is always a safe backup. ------------------------------ From: NotQuiteDullJack Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 00:22:35 -0500 (EST) Subject: Upcoming DC Shows Hey, any DC area (or just passin' through) ecto-types planning on attending Madder Rose this saturday and/or Marti Jones/Don Dixon on monday? (both at the "Classic" 9:30 club) e-me if so and you'd like to meet up doug __/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\ = ...nous devons cultiver notre jardin... = = INET:dmayowel@access.digex.net AOL:DougMhyphW Compu$erve:102432,355 = = visit the pathetic caverns! http://www.access.digex.net/~dmayowel = ------------------------------ From: "Nicole van den Oudenhoven" Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 09:40:31 GMT Subject: Re: INFO ON SOME COOL BANDS.... jeffy@wam.umd.edu wrote... >That would be "That's Just the Way You Are." Great song, but I'd hardly >call it rare. It's on the _Melrose Place_ soundtrack, and was also >released a single. Being an absolute idiot, I didn't buy the single >because the single was backed with a track from _Whatever_ and also had a >note saying that the song would be on the new Aimee Mann album. Ummm... sorry Jeff but it is actually "That's just WHAT you are", I know that for sure because one I'm a big fan, two I have the Australian version of the single and the new album I'm With Stupid, and three you can check it out on http://www.sky.net/~btcreel/aimee.html I positively love the new album, although it did take a couple of listens as it is different from Whatever, which is just absolutely one of the best albums ever (IMHO). ------------------------------ From: Neal Copperman Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 13:58:05 -0500 (EST) Subject: Jewel tour dates This info was passed along and mangled a little bit on the jewel list, but the general idea is there. I'd call clubs to verify details though. NEal As of 12/4/95 Co-headline dates with Edwin McCain Fri Jan 12 Athens, GA 40 Watt Club Sat Jan 13 Nashville, TN 328 Performance Hall Sun Jan 14 Asheville, NC Be Here Now Mon Jan 15 Chattanooga, TN Red Square Wed Jan 17 Lexington, KY Lynn-somethings? Thu Jan 18 Knoxville, TN Flamingos Fri Jan 19 Charlottesville, VA Traxx Sat Jan 20 Alexandria, VA Episcopal High School Sun Jan 21 Washington, DC The Bayou / 930 Club Tue Jan 23 Allentown, PA Starz (?) Wed Jan 24 Providence, RI Club Babybead / M?? Cafe Thu Jan 25 Philadelphia PA Theater of Living Arts Fri Jan 26 New York, NY Wetlands / Irving Plaza / Tramps Sat Jan 27 Boston, MA Music Hall Mon Jan 29 New Haven/Danbury CT Toad's Place / Tuxedo Junction Tue Jan 30 Northhampton, MA Iron Horse Wed Jan 31 Killington, VT Picklebarrel Thu Feb 1 Toronto, ON The Horseshoe Fri Feb 2 Detroit/Ann Arbor St. Andrews Hall / Blind Pig Sat Feb 3 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop / Peabody's Mon Feb 5 Columbus, OH Stache's / Newport Music Hall Tue Feb 6 Cincinnati, OH Bogart's Wed Feb 7 Indianapolis IN Vogue / World Mari Gras (?) Thu Feb 8 Milwaukee, WI Shank Hall Fri Feb 9 Chicago, IL Park West Sat Feb 10 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue / Caboose Mon Feb 12 Ames / Des Moines, IA People's / The Venue Tue Deb 13 Kansas City, MO Hurricane Wed Feb 14 Omaha, NE Nick & Eric's Fri Feb 16 Denver, CO Herman's Hideaway / Blue Bird Sat Feb 17 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre Sun Feb 18 Ft. Collins, CO The Starlight Mon Feb 19 Salt Lake City, UT Zephyr Club Tue Feb 20 Boise, ID Bogle's Thu Feb 22 Seattle, WA Backstage Fri Feb 23 Vancouver, BC Town Pump Sat Feb 24 Portland, OR La Luna Mon Feb 26 Sacramento, CA Press Club Tue Feb 27 San Francisco, CA Slim's / Bimbo's Wed Feb 28 Santa Cruz/San Jose, CA The Catalyst / Cactus Club Thu Feb 29 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour / Roxy Theater ------------------------------ From: Michael Bowman Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 13:46:16 -0800 (PST) Subject: Some news from Love-Hounds x-gateway: ftp.UU.NET from love-hounds to rec.music.gaffa; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 03:48:13 EST Approved: wisner@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <9512130844.AA16314@slater.chemie.uni-bremen.de> X-Sender: willker@slater.chemie.uni-bremen.de X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.1.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 09:41:44 -0100 From: willker@chemie.uni-bremen.de (Wieland Willker) Subject: *** NEWS FROM KATE!! *** (SAE 11) Sender: owner-love-hounds@gryphon.com Precedence: bulk Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Path: news.io.com!tivoli.tivoli.com!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!wendy-fate.uu.net!love-hounds Lines: 75 Hello friends, I don't know if anyone was faster with this, but better twice than nothing. Today I received a Christmas newsletter (or how should I call this?) from the KBC. It's two pages, one with pen pals and swaps, the other is a letter from Kate. She has done a new song: - ------------- "Dear All, I've been taking time off work this year and it's been really good for me. I've still kept busy but I've also had lots of time to rest and catch up things. Many, many thanks for your continued support - I've had such positive feedback from you about the last album and the film. I feel so priviledged to have such nice people responding to my work. I've just done a song for Donal Lunny who's putting an album together of traditional Irish music. It was fun and very challenging. The lyrics are in Gaelic so I will eagerly await comments from all Irish-speaking listeners in particular. I'm sure Ma gave me a helping hand! Much love to you, a very Happy Christmas and warm wishes for '96." Kate x - -------------- Lisa added: "There is no definite release date yet but it will hopefully be available in or some time after March 1996. The title is to be "Common Ground (Celtic Voices)" and it will be released by Premier Records which is part of EMI Records. We understand that it will be available worldwide. At present the artists appearing on this will be: - - Kate - - Sinead O'Connor - - Christy Moore - - Neil and Tim Finn (of Crowded House) - - Davey Spillane - - Sharon Shannon - - Elvis Costello - - Maire Brennan - - Andy Irvine - - Paul Brady - - Brian Kennedy - - Liam O'Maonlai (from Hothouse Flowers) (There may be another couple of artists but as these will not be confirmed until later this week, too late for the overseas Christmas posting deadline, we thought we would get this off to you now.) We will let you have further details when we have them in 1996 so don't forget to make sure we have your replacement SAE's marked 12. (Overseas SAE + IRC) Kate has also designed some charity Christmas cards for the Brian Eno project "Warchild" we understand these are available from major outlets including HMV stores. As I write this, it is snowing - long may it continue! Have a great Christmas and I'll be in touch in '96. All the best Lisa x - ------------- Hey |>oug, this is a nice pen pal for you: "Leigh Dulake, he's very much into Kate, Madonna and a few other artists." and: Jason Cuss, Castleford, W.Yorks is planning his 5th Kate party, called "Northern Lights V". That's it. best wishes Wieland SSSSSS RRRR III S R R I SSSSSS RRRR I S R R I SSSSSS acrum R R egina III mmortalis or so... ------------------------------ From: Michael Bowman Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 14:30:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: Ecto + gaming I play Illuminati: New World Order, one of the collectible card games making the rounds. My latest deck was an Ecto deck. One card in INWO is Media Sensation, which is your choice of a celebrity. I put 6 in my deck: Kate, Tori, Sarah, Loreena, Happy and (since I was out of normal ones and only had a German-language card left) Elizabeth Frazier (since the card was incomprehensible to me I thought it appropriate). I also had the Recording Industry, Empty Vee, Cable Television, Madison Ave, Big Media, Hollywood, etc. I've played with the deck three times, but only once was I able to make Kate the Messiah. I've also made her a Celebrity Spokesperson for Madison Ave (those Fruitopia commercials). The deck was fun to play and drew lots of groans from those who know my musical tastes. Michael Bowman bvmi@odin.cc.pdx.edu ------------------------------ From: mapravat@prairienet.org (Mitchell A. Pravatiner) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:05:02 -0600 (CST) Subject: You want it WHEN? :-) This is a last-ditch appeal to those who haven't sent music for the Happy Gift Project, and have been contemplating doing so, to do so forthwith. I haven't been in recent contact with Doug about what has come in so far, due to a glitch that had my email screwed until late yesterday; but the thing is now running behind schedule, as usual, and time is of the essence. Send recorded music to Doug Burks, 2223 NW 59th St. Apt. 2, Seattle, WA 98107 If you can't record your own intro on tape, you can email me a text to read at mapravat@prairienet.org . The bottom line is, do it now. Mitch ------------------------------ From: THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 22:23:16 -0500 (EST) Subject: Happy holidays, ho ho ho Hi! I get the feeling I'm not alone in getting sucked into the whole time-sink holiday morass that seems to be at its all-time worst this year? Like, the Solstice is next week already, and Christmas is in ten days, and I'm going on vacation over the holidays, which means work sucks even worse than usual, the weather is really bad and I still have tons of shopping to do, and if anybody thinks they're going to get any holiday cards this year they're deluded. Just call me Scrooge. Sigh. Some of the holiday music I've heard has given me some cheer, however inadvertently. One of the most frightening things I've ever heard came off the radio the other day: Kristen Hersh singing Christmas songs. The whole concept was just so absurd, I couldn't stop laughing the entire time. Fortunately, it was followed by a sufficiently angst-ridden song from _Hips And Makers_ to put the universe back into alignment again (thanks to our own Valerie Kraemer at WPKN for providing the experience :). Hey, got a new Nields EP today! It's called "Abigail" (after the other Nields sister), and is only available by calling 1-800-5NIELDS or at shows. It contains 5 previously unrecorded songs they've been doing at shows for some time now: "Happy Ever After Afternoon", "Cowards", "Alfred Hitchcock", "Waco Lake", and "Goodnight Irene". Very cool stuff. They were at Wetlands last night, but I couldn't make it. :( I heard about 5 minutes of an interview with Neryssa and Katryna on WFUV yesterday -- they did a completely new song that's going to be on the new album _Gotta Get Over Greta_ (out March 5 :), and it was way cool. Wow, I love those guys. Anybody see Heather Nova on Conan O'Brien last night? She did "Walk This World", Conan lusted after her, it was okay. Now to some replies. I get the feeling I've lost some mail, but hey. :) irvin reported: > tori has a tattoo too! didn't know that. Neat! What is it? mjm inquired: > Speaking of parodies, a long time ago my brother was working for a radio > station and brought home an LP by The Monks called (I think) _Bad > Habits_. I forget the name of the LP, but it had some pretty funny and > well-written parody-like songs, for example Love in Stereo, and something > at the end called Skylab (mostly instrumental with the word "skylab" > uttered at strategic times, kinda like tequila). Anyways, has anyone > ever heard of them? I've always wondered if I would ever find a CD of > this album, but I never have. Whoa! Serious Twilight Zone moment here... the day you posted that, I got a catalog from WFMU containing, among other bizarre things: The Monks, _Black Monk Time_. Here's the description from the catalog: "The Monks were a group of U.S. Army drop-outs trying to make the American rock-n-roll dream happen in 1960's Germany. Weaned on German beer halls, the monks out-raunched most of their stateside contemporaries, making garage rock that was nihilistic, crazed, and torn in two by hate and love simul- taneously. Waves of shuddering feedback, nonsensical lyrics, groaning organ and echoey banjo charged their sound with a tension and intensity rarely matched. With their lame monk haircuts and special monk-knotted ties, the monks scream "I hate you baby" and somehow still embody all that is good in the world." Hmmm. Doesn't sound much like The Monks you speak of... but in any case, they've got it on import for $22 if you're interested. The catalog is at http://wfmu.org -- they've got some old Yma Sumac releases and Clara Rock- more's _The Art of the Theremin_, among other things, and it all goes to support a cool community radio station (right, Nick? :). Geoff posted: > The gate and bridge portrayed on "The Keep" are in Clare College > right here in Cambridge (UK). If you look incredibly carefully you > can just make out part of King's College Chapel in the top right- > hand corner of the photo. Really??? Wow!!! If you find out how she came to use that, please share with the group! :) Markku noted about Aimee Mann's new one: > It's very different in style from "Whatever": louder, faster, lots of > distorted guitars. At least that was my first impression, I've only listened > it a couple of times. I've only had the inclination to listen to it a couple of times, unfortunately. :( But I saw on the New Release board at Strawberries the other day that it's due for release here in the US on 1/30! (I wonder if that'll stick.) Nick reported about Joni Mitchell: > She is also scheduled to do Good Morning America (ABC) friday morning. > (i suppose it could be a taping, but I dont know the particulars) She ended up taping a segment for "CBS This Morning" at noon, in front of a small studio audience of WFUV listeners (of which I, alas, couldn't be a part :P). The half-hour song and interview segment is scheduled to be aired on January 9, so get those VCR's ready! Apparently she said she's planning a small-venue tour for the first part of next year, and dropped some other juicy hints as well... The mini-thread about children's shows of the 70's reminded me of a very bizarre thing that was on television two weekends ago: "Toonapalooza", on The Cartoon Network. Picture Tanya Donnelly and Juliana Hatfield singing "Josie and the Pussycats"; Matthew Sweet doing "Scooby Scooby Doo, Where Are You?"; Liz Phair and Material Issue on "The Tra La La" song from Banana Splits; Violent Femmes cranking it up on "Eek Ak Oop" from The Jetsons; The Murmurs on "Sugar" from the Archies, and many many more. All hosted from Drew Barrymore's living room, no less. Gack. There were also songs from Sigmund And The Sea Monsters, Speed Racer, Gigantor, Jonny Quest, and the Flintstones. VERY strange, yes. Jeffy declared: > I WANT _BOYS FOR PELE_. And I want it NOW. Gee, so do I. And I haven't heard one note of the album yet. (Anybody wanna get me a sound card for Christmas? :) piquet mewed: > Just found out over the weekend that Ani di Franco is playing the > Maleny Folk Festival in January sometime, 'n I was wondering if anyone > knew if she had any other dates planned around Australia? Ani in Oz?!? Wow!!!!! That's *so* cool!!! I feel better already. :) Have a good weekend, ectophiles... we're going to see the Four Bitchin' Babes on Saturday (Christine Lavin, Sally Fingerett, Megan McDonough, and Debbi Smith), which should be fun. Not to mention, we'll also be seeing a band fronted by an ectophile (I won't name names, but she's at Yale and posts occasionally about things like Yes and guitars ;) tomorrow night, which will definitely be cool. +===========================================================================+ |Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| |Boonton, NJ USA http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/methpg.html| +===========================================================================+ | "Life is a sleazy stranger and this is his favorite bar" - Ani DiFranco | +===========================================================================+ ------------------------------ From: Sue Trowbridge Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 22:52:03 -0500 (EST) Subject: Tori Amos BOYS FOR PELE (spoiler alert) spoilers ahead! if you don't want to read anything about Tori's forthcoming (Jan. 23) album BOYS FOR PELE please hit "delete" I am on a train moving through New England, past frozen rivers dusted with newfallen snow. The cloudy sky is as white as the ground. Boats sit anchored in icy harbors; farther out, in the restless Atlantic, I watch as a swan's long white neck and gracefully tapered head disappear under the water's surface. The train travels quickly enough that I can only glimpse the bare branches of trees and snow-covered fields. As soon as I focus on something, it is already passing from my range of vision. I feel the same way about music sometimes. I savor a vocal mannerism or a turn of phrase, but it's over in an instant, the song moving along as restlessly and relentlessly as the New England scenery outside my window. The difference, of course, is that I can press the rewind button on my Walkman, but to do so would spoil the moment. And I'm already relishing, or anticipating, the next singular note or line. The new Tori Amos album, BOYS FOR PELE, is named after a volcano goddess, but its rightness as a soundtrack for this wintry day makes it seem as bright and diamond-sharp as the ice on a pond. On several songs, Tori has replaced her faithful Boesendorfer with a harpsichord, which doesn't have the warmth of tone of a piano; using it, the artist surrenders her ability to play quietly, or to move from a pianissimo passage to a grand, crashing forte. At first, the archaic instrument seems jarringly brittle. But the first song which features it prominently, "Blood Roses," spins a dark tale that makes the harpsichord's chilly beauty seem perfectly appropriate. Some of the lyrics seem inspired by Anne Rice's vampire chronicles, while others suggest the survivor of a soured love affair who has moved from grief to anger to, finally, cold resignation: "I've shaved every place where you've been, boy." It's hard not to think of Tori's own loss of love (her breakup with longtime boyfriend Eric Rossi) while listening to songs like "Putting the Damage On," "Hey Jupiter" and the heartbreaking "Doughnut Song." Other tracks deal with different kinds of loss -- the subject of "Marianne," a lush piano ballad with string orchestration, is a woman who killed herself. And the sweetly-sung "Horses," like LITTLE EARTHQUAKES' "Mother" and "Winter," presents a portrait of girlhood memories that seem almost vivid enough to touch. The album's most daring number is "Professional Widow," which sounds heavily influenced by Tori's friend Polly Harvey and suggests what might have resulted if Polly had taken up harpsichord instead of guitar. Its tempo is similar to "God," and the lyrics are bitter and profane: "Starfucker, just like my daddy." With a cleaned-up chorus, this could be a single. Also adventurous is "In the Springtime of His Voodoo," which starts with what sounds like vocal improvisation and sports a low, rumbly piano melody. Tori refers to "Star Trek" in the lyric and at one point, growls: "Got an angry snatch, girls, you know what I mean." My favorite track is the slightly jazzy "Mohammad My Friend," which is the only one on the album to mention the titular goddess: "You've never seen fire, until you've seen Pele blow." The provocative lyrics are pure Tori: "Mohammad my friend, it's time to tell the world, we both know it was a girl back in Bethlehem." A saxophone provides a sultry counterpoint to Tori's smooth vocals. Anyone who cherished LITTLE EARTHQUAKES and UNDER THE PINK knows that Tori is capable of creating glorious songs that engage a listener's emotions. BOYS FOR PELE has neither the heart-in-throat element of discovery of LITTLE EARTHQUAKES, nor does it indulge in the lyrical flights of fancy of UNDER THE PINK tracks like "Space Dog." But it is a remarkably rich musical tapestry, and full of those moments that tempt me to hit "rewind" - -- the KaTelike upper register singing in "Way Down," the goofily whimsical song-fragment "Mr. Zebra," the ethereal backing vocals in "Caught a Lite Sneeze," the unexpectedly playful bridge of "Professional Widow." As the snowy scenery speeds by, though, I don't want to break the mood. I will listen straight through until the very end of "Twinkle," a fragile solo piano piece that closes the album but never resolves, stopping abruptly. And it occurs to me that whether I listen to BOYS FOR PELE on a swiftly-moving train or at home, afterwards I will feel as though I've traveled somewhere. And that I'm witnessing a kind of miracle: I'm peeking into the volcano, and it's snowing inside. - --Sue Trowbridge trow@access.digex.net ------------------------------ From: Mike Matthews Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 00:15:07 -0500 Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** *************** Julie C. Kammerzell (kammerzj@ucs.orst.edu) *************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Damon Harper Tue December 16 1975 Sagittarius Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Milla Wed December 17 1975 Sagittarius Chris Schernwetter Tue December 17 1974 Sagittarius Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here Marvin Camras Sat January 01 1916 Tapehead Jeanne Schreiter Tue January 03 1967 Capricorn John Sandoval Wed January 04 1967 Capricorn Paul Cohen Tue January 05 1954 Capricorn Tony Garrity Mon January 08 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 09 1962 OfTheTimes Troy J. Shadbolt Thu January 14 1971 Capricorn Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ From: ptv@rtp.scm-metals.com (Patrick Varker) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 09:43:53 -0500 Subject: Sarah-House of Blues For those that missed it the first time around, Sarah with The Chieftains will be repeated this weekend on TBS,s House of Blues. Patrick ------------------------------ From: larnep@pathfinder.com (Larne Pekowsky) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 09:43:10 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Happy holidays, ho ho ho Meredith Tarr: > I get the feeling I'm not alone in getting sucked into the whole time-sink > holiday morass that seems to be at its all-time worst this year? This year, my friends and I got so fed up with the whole thing that we decided to just forgo all the presents crap, each chip in $20 and buy each other a fun night out somewhere. > The mini-thread about children's shows of the 70's reminded me of a very > bizarre thing that was on television two weekends ago: "Toonapalooza", on The > Cartoon Network. Picture Tanya Donnelly and Juliana Hatfield singing "Josie > and the Pussycats" This sounds like a compilation project called "Saturday Morning." I came across the video tape in the local Tower, and on the back it mentioned a companion CD. I probably would have bought it too, if for no other reason than I think Liz Phair singing "Tra La La" would make my head explode, and The Ramones doing the Spider Man theme would probably make at least one of my friend's head explode, and lord knows you can't have enough exploding heads at this time of year. Sadly, I couldn't find the CD. > Jeffy declared: > > > I WANT _BOYS FOR PELE_. And I want it NOW. > > Gee, so do I. And I haven't heard one note of the album yet. (Anybody > wanna get me a sound card for Christmas? :) The sad thing is I work in an office with a T1 and a few Macs and RealAudio, and I *still* can't hear "Caught a Lite Sneeze" because they're using a newer version of RA then we have. - Larne ------------------------------ From: sheila@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Sheila Rieser) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 09:55:03 -0500 Subject: [none] Near the end of "Party of Five" last week there was a song played by a female vocalist that was faintly familiar but I couldn't place it. Does anyone know what it was and who sang it? It was played during the part when Charlie was sitting in the backyard after his marriage was called off for good and Kirsten left with her parents. Thanks for any help ------------------------------ From: VNozick@tribune.com Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 09:35:39 -0800 Subject: Random replies >holiday morass that seems to be at its all-time worst this year? Like, the >Solstice is next week already, and Christmas is in ten days, and I'm going >on vacation over the holidays, which means work sucks even worse than usual, >the weather is really bad and I still have tons of shopping to do, and if >anybody thinks they're going to get any holiday cards this year they're >deluded. Just call me Scrooge. Sigh. Well, Meredith, what side of the bed did you wake up on today? :) On the thread about the children's shows, does anyone remember the Animalympics? It was a Sunday morning cartoon with a bunch of animal characters competing in a race every week. The only character I remember was a big purple ape. I'll just sit here and sadly bemoan my lost Christmas card from Meredith... ==> Valerie ------------------------------ From: jeffy@wam.umd.edu Date: Fri, 15 Dec 95 11:16:24 EST Subject: Re: Happy holidays, ho ho ho meth sez: >> The mini-thread about children's shows of the 70's reminded me of a very >> bizarre thing that was on television two weekends ago: "Toonapalooza", on >> the Cartoon Network. Picture Tanya Donnelly and Juliana Hatfield >> singinging "Josie and the Pussycats" and Larne sez: >This sounds like a compilation project called "Saturday Morning." I >came across the video tape in the local Tower, and on the back it >mentioned a companion CD. I probably would have bought it too, if for >no other reason than I think Liz Phair singing "Tra La La" would make >my head explode, and The Ramones doing the Spider Man theme would >probably make at least one of my friend's head explode, and lord knows >you can't have enough exploding heads at this time of year. Sadly, >I couldn't find the CD. Matthew Sweet's "Scooby Doo" is, like, some sort of massive hit in DC right now. I'm *amazed* that more people don't know about this. I remember hearing about the project ages ago, but forgot about it until the Matthew Sweet song woke me up one morning. Stores that were initially unwilling to order it now can't keep it on the shelf or have to apologize to customers that they never got around to ordering it. OOPS. I listened to a chunk of it (until ER came on) at a friend's last night, and it's pretty durned nifty, at least for anyone who grew up watching Saturday morning tv in the late 60's/early 70's. >> Jeffy declared: >> >> > I WANT _BOYS FOR PELE_. And I want it NOW. >> >> Gee, so do I. And I haven't heard one note of the album yet. (Anybody >> wanna get me a sound card for Christmas? :) > >The sad thing is I work in an office with a T1 and a few Macs and >RealAudio, and I *still* can't hear "Caught a Lite Sneeze" because >they're using a newer version of RA then we have. Heh. You're probably not missing much. If the quality of the RA version of the song is as crappy as that of the WAV file I downloaded last night, then you *really* can't hear what the song sounds like. It's just so....damned.....GOOD. I'm at once glad that I had enough warning that they were about to play it on the radio to turn off the alarm clock and crank up the stereo, and still PISSED that I don't have a tape deck at home so I could have dubbed it. Jeff ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #308 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu